# Journal (docs/history/journal.md)

Record — append-only. Use for: durable mid-execution knowledge — a fact discovered while building that some owning doc will eventually carry, captured the moment it exists so it survives the session. A row is resolved by landing in its owning doc: the row is deleted and the changelog entry cites it. The file stays short by construction; a journal that only grows is a queue nobody drains.

One line per fact. Never narrative, never progress notes (progress lives in the plan), never user preferences (those go to the runtime's memory store).

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# Journal

Append-only capture of mid-execution knowledge — one line per fact, written the moment it exists, resolved by landing in its owning doc (delete the row, cite it in the changelog entry). Format: `YYYY-MM-DD · <area> · <one-line fact> → lands-in: <owning doc | backlog | memory>`

- YYYY-MM-DD · {area} · {one-line fact} → lands-in: {owning doc | backlog | memory}
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